Classic and printing in Managed environment

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I have two 933mhz G4 servers with 10.2.8 and using WGM for approx. 150 users.
The probelm I am having is that users can’t print from classic applications to managed printers. Below is a reply from Apple:

“We’ve run into this issue before. The problem is that it is the
printer driver system under Mac OS X that ‘knows’ how to include the
authentication information when printing to a restricted queue.
Laserwriter 8, and any other OS 9 driver for that matter, does not
know how to include this information. At this time the work around
of printing to a PDF and then printing that from an OS X native
application is the best solution.”

I have tried using the print to PDF (PrintToPDF printer driver) and opening the file up in Acrobat Reader, Acrobat 5.0.5 and Preview and then trying to print it. However, when the prnt job is sent to the queue on the server the queue automatically stops. I can’t figure out why.

Also, is there an external Print Server that will allow this?
Thanks

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